(linguistics) A change in the meaning of a term depending upon context
(obsolete) The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; an equivalent.
equivalence
anthradiquinone
anthrahydroquinone
aquilawood
baldoquin
blandiloquence
blandiloquence
noun
(archaic) flattery [from 17th c.]
blandiloquious
blandiloquous
blandiloquous
adj
(obsolete) blandiloquent
coloquintida
coloquintida
noun
(obsolete) Colocynth, a viny plant bearing extremely bitter fruit.
conquistador
conquistador
noun
A conqueror, but especially one of the Spanish soldiers that invaded Central and South America otherwise known as the doorways to the new world, in the 16th century and defeated the Incas and Aztecs.
conquistadores
conquistadores
noun
plural of conquistador
conquistadors
deaquation
desquamation
desquamation
noun
(medicine) The shedding of the outer layers of the skin.
desquamations
desquamations
noun
plural of desquamation
diphenylquinomethane
diplomatique
disequalization
disequalization
noun
The process of becoming unequal; the act of disequalizing.
disequilibration
disequilibration
noun
The act of bringing about a state of disequilibrium
disqualification
disqualification
noun
(basketball): The act of being forbidden from further play in a basketball game due to the accumulation of too many personal fouls.
That which disqualifies; that which causes someone to be unfit for a certain purpose or role
The act of disqualifying, or the state of being disqualified
disqualifications
disqualifications
noun
plural of disqualification
disquiparation
disquisitional
disquisitional
adj
Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
disquisitionary
disquisitionary
adj
Pertaining to disquisition; disquisitional.
disquisitorial
disquisitorial
adj
Of or pertaining to a disquisitor.
equidiagonal
equidiagonal
adj
(geometry) Of a convex quadrilateral: having the two diagonals of equal length.
equidimensional
equidimensional
adj
Having (approximately) the same dimensions.
equidominant
equidominant
adj
equally dominant
equimodal
equiponderance
equiponderance
noun
The state of being equal in weight; equipoise
equiponderancy
equiponderancy
noun
Archaic form of equiponderance.
equiponderant
equiponderant
adj
(obsolete) Having equal weight.
equiponderate
equiponderate
verb
To counterbalance.
equiponderated
equiponderated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of equiponderate
equiponderating
equiponderating
verb
present participle of equiponderate
equiponderation
equiponderation
noun
An equiponderating, or counterbalancing.
equivocated
equivocated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of equivocate
equoidean
grandiloquence
grandiloquence
noun
Lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing.
grandiloquent
grandiloquent
adj
(of a person, their language or writing) Given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive number of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid
grandiloquently
grandiloquently
adv
showing grandiloquence
grandiloquous
grandiloquous
adj
grandiloquent
holoquinoidal
hydroxyanthraquinone
hydroxyanthraquinone
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of several organic compounds that can be viewed as derivatives of an anthraquinone through replacement of one hydrogen atom by a hydroxyl group.
inadequation
inadequation
noun
(obsolete) Lack of exact correspondence.
liquidation
liquidation
noun
(euphemistic) Murder of dehumanized victims by a regime (and possibly its allies).
The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.
The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.
liquidations
liquidations
noun
plural of liquidation
liquidator
liquidator
noun
Any of the workers involved in cleaning up the Chernobyl disaster
One supporting the political policy of liquidationism; a liquidationist.
One who liquidates.
liquidators
liquidators
noun
plural of liquidator
liquidatorship
liquidatorship
noun
The role or business of a liquidator.
liquidization
liquidization
noun
The action, or the result of liquidizing
maquiladora
maquiladora
noun
An assembly plant in Mexico owned by a company from the United States or another foreign country, using cheap local labour and imported components, and which then exports its products to the company's country of origin; also (by extension) similar factories in other countries.
maquiladoras
maquiladoras
noun
plural of maquiladora
marquisdom
marquisdom
noun
(obsolete) A marquisate.
mastoideosquamous
meriquinoidal
mosquitocidal
mosquitocidal
adj
Acting as a mosquitocide; fatal to mosquitos.
nondesquamative
nondesquamative
adj
Not desquamative.
nondisqualifying
nondisqualifying
adj
Not disqualifying.
nonequalized
nonliquidating
nonliquidation
nonliquidation
noun
Lack of liquidation; failure to liquidate.
odalisque
odalisque
noun
(historical) A female slave in a harem, especially one in the Ottoman seraglio.
A desirable or sexually attractive woman.
outequivocated
overqualified
overqualified
adj
Having too many qualifications to be deemed appropriate for a (usually unskilled) job.
parietoquadrate
preliquidation
preliquidation
adj
Before liquidation.
pseudoacquaintance
pseudoantique
pseudoantique
adj
Apparently, but not actually, antique.
pseudoaquatic
pseudoequalitarian
pseudoequalitarian
adj
Apparently, but not actually, equalitarian.
quadragenarious
quadragenarious
adj
(rare) Synonym of quadragenarian: Of or related to fortysomethings.
quadraphonic
quadraphonic
adj
(of a sound system) Employing four independent channels or speakers.
quadraphonics
quadraphonics
noun
quadraphonic sound
quadratiferous
quadratomandibular
quadratomandibular
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the quadrate bone and the mandible.
quadrichord
quadrichord
noun
(obsolete, music) tetrachord
quadricone
quadricone
noun
(geometry) A quadric cone.
quadricorn
quadricorn
noun
Any quadricornous (four-horned) animal
quadricornous
quadricornous
adj
having four horns
quadricostate
quadricostate
adj
Having four ribs.
quadricotyledonous
quadricovariant
quadricovariant
noun
(mathematics) a covariant of degree 4
quadricrescentoid
quadricrescentoid
adj
(zoology, dentistry) Having four crescentic folds.
quadrifarious
quadrifarious
adj
(botany) Arranged in four rows or ranks.
quadrifariously
quadrifariously
adv
In a quadrifarious manner.
quadrifocal
quadrifocal
adj
(optics) Of or pertaining to lenses that have four different powers per eye.
quadrifoil
quadrifoil
adj
Alternative form of quadrifoliate
quadrifoliate
quadrifoliate
adj
(botany) Having four leaves or leaflets.
quadrifoliolate
quadrifoliolate
adj
(botany) Having four leaflets.
quadrifolious
quadrifolium
quadriform
quadriform
adj
Having four forms, parts or aspects
quadrifrons
quadrifrons
noun
(architecture) Synonym of tetrapylon
quadrifrontal
quadrifrontal
adj
(architecture) In the form of a quadrifrons.
quadrifurcation
quadrifurcation
noun
A division into four branches
quadrigeminous
quadrigeminous
adj
Archaic form of quadrigeminal.
quadrigenarious
quadrigenarious
adj
(rare) Having or consisting of four hundred.
quadrijugous
quadrijugous
adj
quadrijugate
quadrillion
quadrillion
noun
(figuratively, slang, hyperbolic) Any very large number, exceeding normal description.
num
(US, modern British and Australian, short scale) A thousand trillion (logic: 1,000 × 1,000^4): 1 followed by fifteen zeros, 10¹⁵.
(dated, UK, Australia, long scale) A million trillion (logic: 1,000 × 1,000,000^2): 1 followed by twenty-four zeros, 10²⁴.
quadrillions
quadrillions
noun
plural of quadrillion
quadrillionth
quadrillionth
adj
The ordinal form of the number one quadrillion.
noun
One of a quadrillion equal parts of a whole.
The person or thing in the quadrillionth position.
quadrillionths
quadrillionths
noun
plural of quadrillionth
quadrilobate
quadrilobate
adj
Having four lobes.
quadrilobed
quadrilobed
Adjective
Having four lobes.
quadrilocular
quadrilocular
adj
Having four cells or compartments.
quadriloculate
quadriloculate
adj
Having four loculi
quadrilogue
quadrilogue
noun
Alternative spelling of quadralogue
quadrilogy
quadrilogy
noun
(nonstandard) A tetralogy.
quadrimolecular
quadrimolecular
adj
(chemistry) Involving four molecules
quadrinodal
quadrinodal
adj
(mathematics) Having four nodes.
quadrinomial
quadrinomial
adj
Consisting of four names or parts or terms.
noun
(algebra) An expression consisting of four terms.
quadrinomical
quadrinominal
quadrinominal
adj
Alternative form of quadrinomial
quadrioxalate
quadriparous
quadriparous
adj
(ornithology) Laying four eggs.
Having given birth to four offspring.
quadripartition
quadripartition
verb
(transitive) To partition into four.
quadriphonic
quadriphonic
adj
Alternative form of quadraphonic
quadriphosphate
quadriphosphate
noun
(chemistry) Any salt or ester containing four phosphate groups.
quadriphyllous
quadriphyllous
adj
(botany) Having four leaves
quadripolar
quadripolar
adj
Having four poles
quadripole
quadripole
noun
(electronics) An electrical circuit that has two pairs of external terminals.
(physics) four poles disposed in a square fashion.
quadriportico
quadriportico
noun
(architecture) A four-sided portico.
quadriporticus
quadriporticus
noun
A nearly square courtyard surrounded by colonnaded porticoes.
quadripulmonary
quadrisection
quadrisection
noun
One quarter of something.
The action of dividing something into four parts.
quadrisetose
quadrisetose
adj
(biology) Having four bristles.
quadrisyllabous
quadrivious
quadrivious
adj
(rare) In four directions; four ways.
quadrivoltine
quadrivoltine
adj
Having four broods or litters in one year.
quadrophonics
quadrupedation
quadruplication
quadruplication
noun
multiplication by four
quadruplications
quadruplications
noun
plural of quadruplication
quartodeciman
quartodeciman
Noun
Any of a group of early Christians who began Easter on Nisan 14, the day Jesus was crucified according to the Gospel of JohnJohn 19:14, 31, 42, and the day before the beginning of Jewish Passover, which is Nisan 15.
Adjective
Of or pertaining to these people.
quartodecimanism
quartodecimanism
Proper noun
The doctrines of the Quartodecimans.
quartzoid
quartzoid
noun
(mineralogy) A form of crystal resembling quartz, having two six-sided pyramids, base to base.
quasimodo
quasiorder
quasiorder
noun
(set theory) A preorder.
quasiperiodic
quasiperiodic
adj
(mathematics, of a function) Such that an increment of a variable leads to a multiplication by some function.
(physics, of an oscillation) Having two unrelated periods.
Almost periodic; recurring at irregular intervals.
quatrefoiled
quatrefoiled
adj
(architecture) decorated with quatrefoils
quatrefoliated
quattuordecillion
quattuordecillion
num
(US, Britain, Australia, rare, short scale) 10⁴⁵.
(dated, Britain, Australia, rare, long scale) 10⁸⁴.
quattuordecillionth
quindecagon
quindecagon
noun
(geometry) A polygon with fifteen sides and fifteen angles.
quinoidal
quinoidal
adj
(organic chemistry) quinoid
quinoidation
quinquefoliated
quinquefoliated
adj
(botany) Having five leaves
quinquelobated
quinquelobated
adj
quinquelobate
quinquepetaloid
quodlibetal
quodlibetarian
quodlibetarian
noun
One who discusses any subject at pleasure.
quodlibetary
quodlibetary
adj
(philosophy) Of or relating to quodlibet.
quodlibetical
quodlibetical
adj
(philosophy) Of or relating to quodlibet; of a question, posed extemporaneously.